Peer to peer vehicle ad hoc network with bandwidth bonding, seamless mobility and flow-based routing
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- ANTEL
- Publication Date
- 2016-06-16
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RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority on U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 860,246 filed on Jul. 30, 2013, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference to this application.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates in general, to vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs), mesh Wi-Fi networks, and networks formed by customer premise equipment (CPE) as an access network, and in particular, to channel assignment, routing, flow control, methods for promoting bandwidth sharing in VANET, and business model for offering wireless data bandwidth, with 3rd party vendor providing all kinds of electronic services through handsets.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0003] Explanation of background of the present invention starts with a VANET without roadside units. As roadside units mostly serve as gateways to the Internet, such a VANET becomes a huge intranet, which is an isolated IP (Internet Protocol) network. Such kind of VANETs will be referred to as pure VANETs ...